Ranked-choice voting was approved in Maine, Alaska, and Nevada. In 2024, voters in Nevada and Oregon will decide on ballot measures to adopt ranked-choice voting.
One of the reforms implemented by Georgia was a ban on ballot trafficking. Under Georgia’s new law, only a voter, a member of his or her family or household, or a caregiver can return that voter’s absentee ballot.
Allen said absentee ballots are very convenient, but also present a threat to election integrity in the state.
“Our citizens need to have faith in the integrity of our election process,” Allen said.
Among the bill’s notable proposals is a provision repealing President Joe Biden’s March 2021 executive order that instructed hundreds of federal agencies to interfere in the electoral process by using taxpayer money to boost voter registration and get-out-the-vote activities.
A vast network of liberal dark money is using ballot initiatives to buy substantial electoral reforms that would otherwise be impossible.
The American Confidence in Elections Act would implement photo ID to vote and require post-election audits.
Republican-led member states are now choosing to opt out of ERIC over concerns that the organization has too much power to dictate what states do with their voter registrations.
“Ranked-Choice Voting will never be part of South Dakota elections. I signed a bill to ban this process, and I signed 11 other bills to make our election laws the strongest in the nation,” said Republican governor Kristi Noem via Twitter.
This week, a law went into effect allowing foreign nationals — here legally or illegally — to vote in D.C. municipal elections. The only requirement other than age to vote in D.C. elections now is living in the District of Columbia for 30 days.
Republicans in the Ohio General Assembly closed out 2022 by passing an election reform bill covering photo ID requirements, ballot drop boxes, and mail-in ballots.
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